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Wedding! Jimmy and Louise at Clearwell Castle

December 30th, 2009

At the begin­ning of this month, I shot the wed­ding of Jim­my and Louise at Clear­well Cas­tle in Gloucestershire.
If you did­n’t check out their Engage­ment shoot, make sure you do!

We had loads of fun in the fog and the cold on that day.
Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Jim­my and Louise wern’t exact­ly blessed with good weath­er for their wed­ding either, but what I love about Clear­well Cas­tle is that if the weath­er is poor out­side, then there are so many rooms to discover!
In fact, embar­rass­ing­ly, I did­n’t realise that there was a down­stairs to the cas­tle, full of a dance floor and even more rooms!
I’ve always fin­ished shoot­ing before the danc­ing starts at the oth­er Clear­well Cas­tle wed­dings I’ve shot.
I much pre­fer these longer wed­dings, sure they’re far more phys­i­cal­ly exhaust­ing, but I enjoy it as I real­ly get to know the guests and they get to know me.

This was the biggest wed­ding I’ve shot at Clear­well and cer­tain­ly the most fun!
It was also my first Chi­nese wed­ding, so plen­ty of new sights I’ve not wit­nessed before, like the tea cer­e­mo­ny which I found fascinating!
I’d love to be there for their Chi­nese wed­ding in Hong Kong, it sounds loads of fun!

Friends and fam­i­ly flew in lit­er­al­ly from all over the world to see Jim­my and Louise get mar­ried, so the atmos­phere was amazing!

This was the last wed­ding of the year which is a bit sad, but I’ve had an incred­i­ble year.
I’ll be post­ing some of my favorite images up on here lat­er on in the week!

Thank you so much Jim­my and Louise for choos­ing me, I was so flattered!
Enjoy these pictures!

With light pour­ing in like this, you know it’s going to be a good day!

And with this lev­el of mil­i­tary pre­ci­sion, not much could of gone wrong!

So many friends and fam­i­lies flew over from Hong Kong.
This was just Jim­my’s lug­gage though.

All day, there were smiles like this, every­body was so happy!

And so many cute faces!

Although, some were either clear­ly jet-lagged, or just not that crazy about weddings! 


Jim­my and his boys. 

Louise with her brides­maids, Jo and Rachel. 

A few last minute tweaks!


On more than one occa­sion at Jim­my and Louise’s wed­ding, I attempt­ed to use oth­er peo­ples cam­era flash­es to enhance my own image.
I’ve nev­er seen so many cam­eras at one wed­ding, so this was quite easy.
Also, the gen­tle­man check­ing the image on the back of his 5d mk II is Bris­tol pho­tog­ra­ph­er Jor­dan Chung




And now the tea cer­e­mo­ny. It’s a chance for the old­er mem­bers of the fam­i­ly and impor­tant rel­a­tives to give gifts and advice

I real­ly took a shine to “Uncle Joe”… not sure he realised it though!

I don’t know what this friend was say­ing but I’m sure its profound.

Glad I’m not wash­ing up!

And so begins the toasting!

Anoth­er two not over­ly fussed by wed­dings! Or just knack­ered from jet lag!

Anoth­er use of oth­er peo­ples cam­era flash­es to get a cool cake cut­ting shot!

One of the smartest and cute kids was sat on my table.

And the love­ly cou­ple themselves!
Thank you so much Jim­my and Louise!
You could’ve cho­sen any­one to take your pic­tures, so I’m so grate­ful you chose me!

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